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MAINTAINING EJECTION SEATS AROUND THE WORLD

Maintainers from VMFA-211 squadron standing in front of a giant U.S Flag

Maintainers from VMFA-211 Squadron

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Martin-Baker has immense pride in the maintainers working on our seat around the world – due to their hard work, dedicated and skill in servicing our ejection seats, we can proudly say that over 7,715 lives have been saved.

Read their stories below or submit one of your own and receive a Martin-Baker Maintainers Coin as a token of our appreciation.

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Maintainers from VMFA-211 Squadron

Richard Busby

I worked on the jaguars of 226 OCU at Lossiemouth, first line so fitting and removing Type 9b2 and 9b3 seats and associated fittings. The 9b3 I found easier with the headbox being removable for winching in and out on the scissor shackle. The unpleasant bit was being upside down to disconnect the static rods when someone had thrown up…
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Cpl T A Hough

I serviced, maintained and fitted your ejection seats for the bulk of my 15 years as an Armourer in the Royal Air Force at both first-line and second-line levels. I worked on seats fitted to aircraft types including Phantom FGRII, Hawk, Tucson, Jet Provost, Hunter to name a few. My Phantom years at Wildenrath (92 Sqn) are the years I…
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Elliot Dahlen

Eglin Egress is charged with the responsibility of ensuring the safety of F-35 pilots in the training pipeline. Our job could not be more important as these pilots are flying a new airframe and do not have the experience of thousands of flying hours. Each and every day our maintainers inspect, handle, and maintain US16E ejection seats for our pilots,…
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Tom Hinchcliffe

After being promoted in 2009 I was posted to XV(R) sqn which at the time was the Tornado GR4 OCU. I had never worked on first line at the time and it was certainly an eye opener with around twenty aircraft out on the dispersal and a few more in the hangers. After learning the more simpler tasks on the…
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Duncan Charles

I served in the Royal Air Force from 1975 – 2006, attaining the rank of Flight Sergeant. During this time, I worked on differing MB Ejection Seats. After basic training I was posted to Hunter Wing at RAF Wittering, 1976. This was made up of 45 and 58 Squadron Hunters. This was my first introduction to fitting and removing the…
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Richard Busby

I worked on the jaguars of 226 OCU at Lossiemouth, first line so fitting and removing Type 9b2 and 9b3 seats and associated fittings. The 9b3 I found easier with the headbox being removable for winching in and out on the scissor shackle. The unpleasant bit was being upside down to disconnect the static rods when someone had thrown up…
Read More

Cpl T A Hough

I serviced, maintained and fitted your ejection seats for the bulk of my 15 years as an Armourer in the Royal Air Force at both first-line and second-line levels. I worked on seats fitted to aircraft types including Phantom FGRII, Hawk, Tucson, Jet Provost, Hunter to name a few. My Phantom years at Wildenrath (92 Sqn) are the years I…
Read More

Elliot Dahlen

Eglin Egress is charged with the responsibility of ensuring the safety of F-35 pilots in the training pipeline. Our job could not be more important as these pilots are flying a new airframe and do not have the experience of thousands of flying hours. Each and every day our maintainers inspect, handle, and maintain US16E ejection seats for our pilots,…
Read More

Tom Hinchcliffe

After being promoted in 2009 I was posted to XV(R) sqn which at the time was the Tornado GR4 OCU. I had never worked on first line at the time and it was certainly an eye opener with around twenty aircraft out on the dispersal and a few more in the hangers. After learning the more simpler tasks on the…
Read More

Duncan Charles

I served in the Royal Air Force from 1975 – 2006, attaining the rank of Flight Sergeant. During this time, I worked on differing MB Ejection Seats. After basic training I was posted to Hunter Wing at RAF Wittering, 1976. This was made up of 45 and 58 Squadron Hunters. This was my first introduction to fitting and removing the…
Read More

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